Chickens in a box

I was never this hungry with Will, I remember thinking I should be eating more, and when he was measured small for dates having to force myself to snack. It's a different ball game this time round, I'm going to be absolutely enormous by the end! I just get so hungry - especially around mid-morning and when I get home. Does this mean it's a girl? Who knows.... I bet it's a boy and I end up surrounding by farting, cricket-loving, bird-watching, plate-licking heathens while I bustle around trying to put ramekins and napkins on the table and becoming more like my Mother than ever!

Fweet! Born Sunday 18th March - Mother's Day - weighing 7lb 1oz. Another girlfriend for Will to add to his already extensive collection.

...are officially straight. Hoorah! I've been chasing a referral to the eye clinic at Newbury Hospital for 2 months, but haven't had to anything through. So eventually I called again today to just make absolutely sure the referral hadn't come through, and they said no again and told me to nag the GP. I called Falkland and they said they'd look into it - then rang back an hour later to say that we had an appointment and it was at 1.20pm today! As ever I downed tools and galloped off to get Will and after various tests the lady we saw said not to worry, because he has a very wide bridge to his nose it can look like his eyes aren't quite straight but when he gets older and his face starts to change, they will be straight. She also said that given the fact he's now 14 months, it is highly unlikely that he would develop a squint now either. We are so relieved. Now we have a check up in the diary on 9th January next year for Will and Baby Number 2 to get them bo...

Eddie, Will and I trekked up to Twyford on Saturday morning for our next scan to measure the baby's nuchal fold and check all is well. The good news was that we have the same risk of Downs as a 15 year old; 1: 1500, so feeling very happy about everything. When we were scanned for William, he was asleep and I remember having to get off the bed and actually jump around to try to get him to move into the right position. His brother/sister is very different, bouncing around all over the place doing what looks like the backstroke! In the meantime we're waiting for Will to walk with baited breath, but he is a man who knows his own mind and he will only do something when he's good and ready - and not a second before! I know that one day he'll just take off and that will be that, but for now crawling is alot faster and less precarious :)

A bit of a gap since my last post. In the interim life has changed beyond all recognition with Mummy passing away very, very suddenly from liver failure. I'm not going to dwell on what happened, the loss is too huge and too incomprehensible to articulate. Last Thursday we went for our dating scan and the baby is fine. Such a relief. I don't think I will ever be able to relax during a scan again, we are always on tenterhooks. It looks very tiny, but its heart is pumping away and it looked like a little jumping bean. Our next scan is the nuchal on Saturday morning, I can't believe that by then it will look like a 'proper' baby. Fingers crossed all is well. We are so thrilled to be expecting a second child, for the past few weeks it's hardly seemed real and the exhaustion and worry on top of everything else has been almost too much to bear. But finally I feel that we're coming out of the dark, we're able to share the news with our friends and look forward...